Signatures (adapted from Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke): [1-12⁸].

All leaves unsigned

Chancery quarto; [2]₁ recto: 26 lines, 120 x 80 mm; type: 92; initial spaces without guide letters.

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries

Incunabula short title catalogue

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.14 imperfect: leaves [3]₆-[3]₇, and any leaves after [12]₁₀ wanting and replaced in modern manuscript. initial spaces rubricated in red throughout. Seven-line initial space on [1]₈ illuminated. Leaf dimensions: 190 x 152 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.14 with bookplate of the BPL Schofield Fund. Ca. 19th-century inscriptions on recto and verso of front flyleaf. BPL embossed stamp on [1]₁ recto. Early marginal annotation in French on [1]₁ recto. Folded sheet with biographical inscription pertaining to Poggio Bracciolini tipped-in before [1]₈. Hand-painted coat of arms at center and border of vines running into the margin containing the name, "I. de Bussul." Purchased June, 1899.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.14 quarterbound in modern brown goatskin and papier tourniquet. Spine tooled and stamped in gilt. Text block oversewn/sewing structure not discernible.

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